Internet 2 Access- To access Internet 2, contact the University Network Administrator at 2-3603 or via e-mail
The Internet2 consortium is best described by the I2 consortium's "About Internet2" statement as follows ...
"Internet2 is a consortium being led by 207 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today's Internet in its infancy."
The primary benefits/goals of Internet2 as they relate to UMDNJ are to:
Provide a rapid communications link for researchers on all UMDNJ campuses.
Leverage this rapid network infrastructure for purposes of research collaboration and biomedical education between UMDNJ campuses and with other academic institutions and industry.
Develop new software technologies to advance research collaboration and biomedical education initiatives.
Enable large file transfer between collaborators or into storage tiers.
CPU resource sharing over a campus grid infrastructure.
